Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK -- Capital Cities Communications Inc announced an agreement yesterday to acquire the much larger American Broadcasting Cos Inc (ABC) for more than $3.5 billion in a deal that includes the participation of Warren Buffett, one of the nation's richest...
...country's cultural mantel. The magazine proved an accommodating haven for stylish writers as disparate as James Thurber and Isaac Bashevis Singer, E.B. White and J.D. Salinger. To many observers, the elegant weekly seemed not only steeped in tradition but nearly immutable, from its stubborn tenancy of a warren of cramped offices on Manhattan's 43rd Street to its whimsical insistence on printing its foppish inaugural cover every February: the high-necked Eustace Tilley espying a butterfly through an upraised monocle...
...years now, the Burger Supreme Court has snipped at the boundaries of Warren Court precedents--too timidly for some conservatives; heavy-handedly to many liberals' way of thinking. The process has been especially prevalent in criminal-justice cases, and the court, having again scheduled a hefty batch of such rulings this term, continued its chip-chip-chipping away last week by taking a new chunk out of the Miranda rule. That familiar doctrine requires police to advise detained suspects of their rights to remain silent and to obtain a lawyer. When a suspect "voluntarily" makes a damning admission before being...
...participants, of course, have all had plenty of business and personal dealings in the U.S. Nevertheless, they were glad to have the chance to talk firsthand with so many U.S. policymakers. "Learning what makes a political system go, and what the concerns are, has to be of value," said Warren Chippindale, chairman of Coopers & Lybrand. "We saw a lot of people who have clout." John Stoik, president of Gulf Canada Ltd., seemed to speak for many of his colleagues when he said, "I never have had very much exposure to the Government in this country, and I have been very...
While focusing on the right to psychiatric help, Marshall's opinion hinted that states may be required to provide poor defendants with other experts. Ballistics specialists, for example. Nor did Marshall restrict aid to indigents accused of crimes carrying the death penalty. Chief Justice Warren Burger, in a concurring opinion, would have made such a distinction, guaranteeing psychiatric aid only for capital cases...